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President of baseball ops: Dave Dombrowski (since 2016)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.4
WAB — wins above budget
+1.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
-40M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.5
roster fWAR
$173.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Sale 28 FA-elig 32 7.7 12.0 +13.9
Mookie Betts 24 arb 153 4.7 0.9 +14.7
Xander Bogaerts 24 arb 148 3.3 4.5 +6.5
Craig Kimbrel 29 FA-elig 67 3.2 13.2 -2.4
Drew Pomeranz 28 FA-elig 32 2.9 4.5 +5.5
Christian Vázquez 26 arb 99 2.9 0.6 +9.1
Jackie Bradley Jr. 27 arb 133 2.4 3.6 +4.5
Rick Porcello 28 FA-elig 33 2.0 20.1 -13.5
Andrew Benintendi 22 pre-arb 151 1.9 0.5 +5.9
Eduardo Rodriguez 24 pre-arb 25 1.9 0.6 +5.8
David Price 31 FA-elig 16 1.5 30.0 -24.9
Doug Fister 33 FA-elig 18 1.3 1.8 +2.7
Dustin Pedroia 33 FA-elig 105 1.2 15.0 -10.8
Eduardo Núñez↔ SFG 30 FA-elig 38 1.0 1.4 +2.1
Matt Barnes 27 arb 70 1.0 0.6 +2.7
Mitch Moreland 31 FA-elig 149 0.9 5.5 -2.4
Joe Kelly 29 arb 54 0.7 2.8 -0.5
Rafael Devers 20 – 58 0.6 0.2 +1.9
Heath Hembree 28 arb 62 0.5 0.5 +1.2
Sandy León 28 arb 85 0.5 1.3 +0.4
Blaine Boyer 35 FA-elig 32 0.4 0.4 +0.9
Austin Maddox 26 – 13 0.3 0.2 +0.9
Fernando Abad 31 FA-elig 48 0.3 2.0 -0.9
Brian Johnson 26 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Carson Smith 27 arb 8 0.2 0.6 -0.0
Hector Velázquez 28 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Tzu-Wei Lin 23 – 25 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Robbie Ross Jr. 28 arb 8 0.1 1.8 -1.6
Chase d'Arnaud↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Kyle Kendrick 32 FA-elig 2 0.0 1.0 -0.8
Blake Swihart 25 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Addison Reed↔ NYM 28 FA-elig 29 0.0 2.9 -2.9
Roenis Elías 28 arb 1 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Brandon Workman 28 arb 33 -0.0 0.6 -0.7
Kyle Martin 26 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Ben Taylor 24 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Steve Selsky 27 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Noé Ramirez↔ ANA 27 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Marco Hernández 24 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Rajai Davis↔ OAK 36 FA-elig 17 -0.1 0.9 -1.3
Sam Travis 23 – 33 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Chris Young 33 FA-elig 90 -0.3 6.5 -7.5
Hanley Ramirez 33 FA-elig 133 -0.3 22.8 -23.7
Deven Marrero 26 pre-arb 71 -0.4 0.3 -1.6
Josh Rutledge 28 arb 37 -0.4 0.6 -1.9
Robby Scott 27 pre-arb 57 -0.4 0.5 -1.9
Steven Wright 32 arb 5 -0.5 0.6 -2.4
Brock Holt 29 arb 64 -0.6 1.9 -3.9
Pablo Sandoval↔ SFG 30 FA-elig 32 -0.6 7.1 -9.3

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR). Green = produced more value than paid (bargain); red = paid more than produced. Service: pre-arb (<3 yr) / arb (3–6) / FA-eligible (6+). Click headers to sort.

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)

Best acquisitions
PlayerYearWAR for BOS
Jason Varitek199721.2
Josh Beckett200520.1
Derek Lowe199718.0
Curt Schilling200315.2
Eduardo Rodríguez201414.3
Rick Porcello201413.1
Jarrod Saltalamacchia20108.8
Wilyer Abreu20227.5
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Jeff Bagwell199080.2
Brady Anderson198833.0
Hanley Ramírez200529.1
Jamie Moyer199628.0
Carlton Fisk198518.3
Carney Lansford198216.7
Carlos Martínez201316.0
Ernie Whitt198514.7
Rosternomics — quantifying front-office skill, attribution-clean. Follow @rosternomics on X. Decision-makers on record back to 1933; resource-controlled metrics (WAR & payroll) cover 1985–2026.
Data: FanGraphs (WAR), Baseball-Reference & the Chadwick Bureau register (rosters, IDs), the Lahman Database, Baseball America prospect rankings (via The Baseball Cube), and public payroll records. Transaction and trade data was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Executive birth/death data via Wikidata (CC0); bios are original. Emoji graphics by OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All figures are franchise-level outcomes credited to the decision-maker in the acquisition year — not solely attributable to one executive.